Rail-joint.



No. 831,292. PATENTBD SEPT. 18, 1906. G. MURLASITS.

RAIL JOIN T.

APPLICATION FILED JUNI'. so. 190e.

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UNITED. STAWENT GABRIEL MURLAsrrs, 0F LYNDoR-A.' rnNNsYLvANiA.

I ARAIL-contr.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented sept. raises.

Anuman ne@ June so. 1906. .serial no. 324.168.

To all whom it may concern; l v

Be it known that I, GABRIEL MUnLAsrrs, a

subject of the Emperor of Austria-Hungary,

residing -at Lyndora,l in the countyof Allegheny and State ofPennsylvania, have in# 'vented certain new and useful Im rovements inRail-Joints, of which the fol owingmis a specification, reference beinghad therein to the accompanying drawings. j

This invention relates to certain new and useful improvements inrail-joints; andthe invention has for its object to provide novel meansfor firmly holding the confronting ends.of two sections of iails,wherebythey cannot be displaced by rolling-stock passing over the same. l

The invention aims to dispense with the A nuts and bolts heretofore usedin connection with rail-joints, and sto provide positive meansl forsupport-ing the ends of rails between tw'o tiesl or sleepers. y To thisend 'Ip have devised 4a novel chair and fish-bar which lly hold theconrronting ends' of two rails and prevent said rails from spreading, atthe same time. V

permitting of expansion andy contraction of said rails.

The detail construction. ofvmyl improved joint will be presentidescribed and specific.

vally pointed out in t e appended claims. j

Referring to the drawings forming art of this specification, likenumerals of re erence designate corresponding parts throughout; theseveral views, in which-- i Figure 1 is a crossfse'ctional view equippedwith my improved joints. Fig. 2 is Va perspective view of a joint. Fig.3v is a cross-sectional view taken o line of Fig. 2.

Fig. 4 is a similar view taken on line y 'y ofv Fig. 2. Fi 5 is aperspective view of my improved c air; and Fi lis a similar view ofafish-bar usedwith t e chair, the bar being illustrated as partiallyinverted. l

To put my invention into practice, l construct my improved jointof achair 1' and a detachable fish-bar 2, said bar being adapted to firmlyhold the ends of two rails 3 and-4 v v spiked to said chair andembracing said rails,

. upon the chair 1.

. 55 be hereinaner described. .The base-plate' 5 The chair 1 comprises abaselate A5, carrying at its one edge a reinforced 'sh-bar, said barhaving a flange 7 adapted to brace the outer. sides Aof the heads 8ofthe rails and 4. The inner side of the fish-bar is recessed, as at 9,and rovided with a pluralityof recesses or poc ets 10, the object ofwhichwill.

of a track lat o osite edge. and adjacent toits ends which spikes passto secure said chair, rais, and fish-bar 2 to ties orsleepers 12.

' The rails'y 3 and 4 are adapted to rest upon The rails are held byspikes 14, whichv are driven through the innermost openings 11 of thebase-plate `5.' To prevent longitudinal movement of said rails, the webportions L5 said openings are mounted pins 17,*which enter the recessesor pockets 16 of the iishebar 6. These pins, in conjunction with thesh-bar 2, which will now be described, serve to prevent longitudinalmovement of said rails.

The fish-bar 2 is adapted to seat upon the chair lland embrace the rails3 and 4. The inner'side of the fish-.bar is provided with recesses orpockets 18 to receive the ends of the pins 1.7, while the base portionofthe bar 2 is edge'of the bar is cut away, as at 20, in order thatspikes 21 may engage thebar 2 and pass through the outermost openings 11of the chair.

From the fore oing description it will be observedv that I ave ldevisedla novel construction which is strong and durable and fully capable oftaking care of the strains exerted upon the rails 3 and 4.

tails of construction as are permissible vby the appended claims may beresorted to without Ideparting from thejspirit and scope ofthe inuvention. What l claim, ters Patent, is

. .1." ln a lrail-joint, the combination .with rails having openingsformed. in the web portions thereof,-` o a chairadapted to support theends of said rails, and having a fish-bar bar and engaging th'elleads ofsaid rails, said bar having pockets `formed therein, pins extendingfthrough the' web portions of said rails andengaging in said pockets, afish-bar said-ba-r-having pockets formed therein to' receive theop ositeends ofV said. ins, and means housed by 'saidbar and. in ependentthereof to 'secure' said rails to "said substantially as .described lrails having openings formed in their'web porthe chair and against thefish-bar 6 thereof..

It is obvious that such changes in thede- 2. Ina rail-joint, thecombination with is proviV ed with spike-openings 11, throu h thereofare provided with openings 16, and in recessed,as at 19, to clear'thespikes 14.. The

and desire to secure by Letembracing said rails, a flange carried bysaid chair,

. tionsadj'acent their ends, of "a chair adapted f bars carried-by saidchair and embracing said to snpport the ends of said rails, pinsextendsaid mils, means to secure Said hars together, mg through theopenlngs of said rails, nshland nmunsiwused by one o'l' said bars andindependent thereof to seellre said mils to said ehnr, substantially asdescribed.

In testimony whereof l aiix n iysignntln'e in the presence of twowitnesses.

GABRIEL MURLASIFS.

rails, said bars having pockets formed therein to reeeive'the ends ofsaid pins, means to secure said bars together7 and means housed byonetof said bars and independent thereof te secure said rails upon saidchair, substanti'lly as described. A

3. The ,combina-tion with mils, of' a, chair, fish-bars carried by saidChair and embracing Witnesses:

(YilAs.v 1I. MILLER, F. J. FoRYNEn.

